LARGE ARMY JUSTIFIED
GERMANY AWAITING REVENGE.
(Received sth March, 10 a.m.)
PARIS. 4th March.
M. Maginot. Minister of War, in a .speech in the Senate, justified France's plans for a large standing army of 660,----000 France, he said, must assure the watch on the Rhine, in such a way tliat on any outbreak of hostilities she would be able to move a sti-ategic force against the enemy's territory. "The victory over Germany in 1918," he said, "afforded France an advantage which she cannot renounce. Germany is only partially disarmed materially, and in no way disarmed morally. _ She is awaiting revenge and the munitions of •war are being accumulated secretly. For France the payment of reparations in full is a matter of life or death. To obtain that payment she must be in a position to take certain measures of coercion on such conditions that it would be impossible for Germany to resist."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 54, 5 March 1923, Page 7
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